Memory v. Wells’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently January 2021
19 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on State v. Norris · Poole v. . Gentry · Gibson v. Dudley · Bryant v. Murray · Bryan v. . Spivey
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . when you come to this first issue, members of the jury, you will remember that the plaintiff has the burden of proof on it and if the plaintiff has satisfied you by the greater weight of the evidence that they (1) received and recorded deed constituting color of title as the Court has instructed you as to the meaning of color of title, conveying the property described in the Complaint, and (2nd) that the plaintiffs have held said property continuously, adversely, notoriously, openly and extensively for a period of seven years following the recording of said deed, then it would be your duty to answer the first issue YES. If the plaintiffs have failed to so satisfy you, it would be your duty to answer the first issue NO.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.